Sunday, December 05, 2010

Wikipedia

Mao Zedong

This site is very useful, it has information such as his Early Life , his Leadership In China , his Writings , and also some External Links .  The validity of this site is questionable because it is only "Semi-Protected" [please click here for more information].  However, this site does have a lot of infromation within it, also it does have a lot of other resources attached to it. 

Here is a brief summary of some of the information on the site,

Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 and died September 9, 1976.  He was a political theorist and a communist in the Republic of China.  He was the leader of the People's Republic of China.  Two of Mao's program's, called the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution lead to severe famines, causing millions of deaths.  

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Rating
(A) 4
(B) 4
(C) 4

This site does meet the criteria on all subjects.  However wikipedia does state that, "Semi-protection prevents edits from anonymous users (IP addresses), as well as edits from any account that is not autoconfirmed (is at least four days old and has ten or more edits to Wikipedia) or confirmed" (Wiki).
Therefore, this site does have a chance that some users may alter the information within the site.  As a note check the sources that are listed under the references section to confirm the validity.  This page is well written however, it does include a number of pictures, links to other pages, and cites all of its pages.



Wikipedia, Mao Zedong, December 5 2010, December 5 2010,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong>

Wikipedia, Rough guide to semi-protection, January 30 2010, December 5 2010,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rough_guide_to_semi-protection>

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